At the risk of going over what is now very old ground, it's important to remember that 2/3 of Labour voters voted Remain. (I appreciate you're not saying Labour would have won if it had adopted an unequivocally pro-Brexit stance, but I have seen people make this argument. Really, I think the...

I have to wonder where - realistically - a novel like this would be set today, given the pace of gentrification in so many places over the last couple of decades? Surely not London, where probably the only areas where someone with this kind of lifestyle could afford to live would be not only...

On The Road is in the minority of novels I've started and not finished - got about 50 pages in and decided it was just really boring. I can appreciate that it was fresh and relevant in the 50s, of course, but maybe it's because that whole "young/ish white bloke bums around in grotty-but-cool...

Yeah, I looked him up on Wikipedia earlier and saw this bit, too. Sort of thing that's easy to think of as a neutral "formative experience", or even to think "sounds great", but then if you reverse the genders in your head and ask yourself if it's still OK, you're like, eh...

Indeed. But to pick up version's point: how obsessed with the immorality of abortion have you got to be to look past a president who's been accused of assault or rape by 25 women, one of whom was 13 at the time? And if literally all you care about is abortion, then how many women must Trump have...